International impact investor Acumen and the UK funded private sector initiative Invest Salone have revised the Investment Toolkit for SMEs in Sierra Leone for 2025, marking another step forward in strengthening Sierra Leone’s entrepreneurial...
Find out how Invest Salone is working with the tourism sector to overcome challenges and identify opportunities for growth.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work driving private sector growth in Sierra Leone. It features highlights from our collaboration with international finance institutions, the successful launch of the country’s first local currency corporate bond, new insights on the voluntary carbon market, and initiatives to strengthen sustainable finance, fashion and textiles, and innovation.
This infographic explains how Invest Salone is working with businesses and the wider fashion and textiles industry to address sectorwide constraints to growth and competitiveness and encourage investment.
A review of the the carbon market in Sierra Leone, including stakeholder priorities, opportunities for support, areas of risk and recommendations.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work supporting private sector–led growth in Sierra Leone. It includes highlights from our impact to date in unlocking investment and strengthening businesses, updates on the poultry feed sector and investment opportunities, insights from our Technical Assistance Facility and stories on how our partnerships are helping women entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses.
Supporting women to build profitable and sustainable businesses not only benefits them but also their communities and countries. Find out how Invest Salone is working with its partners to invest in women and accelerate progress.
This report is based on a scoping visit to Sierra Leone and engagement with the six largest poultry companies in the country to identify the challenges and opportunities for Sierra Leone’s poultry sector.
As part of our work to encourage investment into Sierra Leone, we co-hosted a delegation of nine major international investment institutions. During the five-day trip, participants visited 20 firms and interacted with around 50 more through several events such as a pitch night where entrepreneurs pitched and received feedback on their businesses.
In September, Invest Salone attended the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) annual conference. Invest Salone consultant, Pooja Melwani, was invited to speak and shared our experience of the broad range of private sector development strategies we employ to support the private and public sectors in tackling constraints to doing business in Sierra Leone.
This toolkit will help guide Sierra Leonean credit institutions through the complex process of applying for wholesale funding for green growth, which they can on-lend to businesses and individuals. Download it now to find out more.
This presentation shares Invest Salone’s lessons learned from working in economies like Sierra Leone, which are emerging from fragility.